Honey from a Weed (Cook's Classic Library) [Paperback]

"It is not like any other book written in the past 50 years and its memory will stay forever." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Beyond the many unusual and simple recipes, this book is a summary of the best kinds of Mediterranean experience. Gray's perceptions are of a depth that is beyond the most ardent traveller. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

An elegantly written celebration. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A rich and idiosyncratic ramble through festivals and harvests, it makes perhaps the most enticing book of the year. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Patience Gray, known for the 1950s classic, Plats du Jour, has written a passionate autobiographical cookery book; Mediterranean through and through, and as compelling as a first-class novel. She has, for the past 30 years, shared the life of a sculptor. It was his appetite for marble and sedimentary rocks which took them to Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades (Naxos) and Apulia. These are places which in turn inspired Honey from a Weed. Everywhere, she has learned from the country people whose way of life she shares, adopting their methods of growing, cooking and conserving the staple foods of the Mediterranean ways. Her present life contrasts with an earlier career in Fleet Street. Now she lives in a dwelling without electricity, telephone, or heating other than an olive wood fire. The deadlines of the past have been replaced by the rhythm of wine-making, of seasonal sowing and gathering. Corinna Sargood's drawings, in another dimension, evoke the underlying spirit of the book, which has to do with landscape, people, art, imagination, as much as with fasting and feasting. John Thorne, who writes the forword, is an American writer who has been described as 'thought-provoking and iconoclastic' in writing about food with a strong dash of philosophy. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Now reprinted in paperback in same format as the original hardback, and on better paper than the previous smaller paperback. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.